TabMod MK. 3.6 (DLC stuff) 1/1/11

[tab]

Download Sullivan's .exe file

This is more or less a mod full of stuff I've been messing with.
No real goal other than "make crazy stuff", rather than "oh the gun does more damage".

Latest update: MK 3.6 (1/1/11)
this update requires the dlc compatability packs or dlc packs, whatever. the free ones or the pay ones, you need at least one of the types of all the dlc since it uses stuff from 'em.


NON-SAFEHOUSE SURVIVORS OPTION:www.mediafire.com/?j77946w5yv9zaq4

SAFEHOUSE SURVIVORS OPTION:www.mediafire.com/?s0gqm7v76pebi17


for the safehouse survivors option you MUST START A NEW GAME OR NEW GAME+

i cannot stress this enough.

im not 100% certain if this is bug free or doesn't wreck the story, so use at your own caution (moreso than usual)



Installation is as simple as extracting the rar into your /data folder!

Features:

Recruitable Survivors in the Safehouse

There are 6 normally unrecruitable NPCS in the Safehouse that you can talk to and recruit as
survivors; they follow all the same rules survivors do, except they don't defect and are invincible.

That means if you want to keep them, do NOT bring them back to the safehouse or save in the safehouse
while you have them following you.

There are also five survivors in Royal Flush plaza, two in obvious sight, one poorly hidden
somewhere on the second floor, and one hidden near the secret room with the sniper rifle.

For this feature to work you MUST START A NEW GAME OR NEW GAME+

Do NOT load up old games or your game will crash!

Powered Up Unarmed Moves

Most of the unarmed skills that Chuck gets have been changed to make them more powerful.

Haymaker: Does the most damage out of all the skills. Sends enemies flying.

Forward Kick: Has very large range and knockback. Also kills on hit.

Jump Kick: Further knockback than haymaker, but doesn't kill.

Sweep: Knocks enemies down in a very long distance cone. Very, very useful for getting past zombies quickly.

Stomp: Kills enemies in very close radius.

Elbow Drop: Seems to randomly switch between the regular elbow drop and the powered up version, which
is a very large radius kill.


Weapons

It adds 100% COMPLETELY NEW items to the safehouse bathroom.
They don't interfere with any of the old items at all, so you can integrate any item mods you have
with it.

Lightning Gun (Roaring Thunder): A Handgun that fires bouncing balls of electricity that shock everything around it

AutoShotgun (Boomstick): A custom M16 that acts like an automatic shotgun.

Grenade Launcher [fire] (Infernal Arms): A shotgun that fires incendiary grenades.

Grenade Launcher [ice] (Holy Arms): A spitball launcher that fires freezing grenades.

Sawblade Gun (Sawblade): A M249 that fires sawblades.

Laser Sword: A laser sword that uses a heavily modified laser sword slash combo.

Beam Katana (Katana Sword): A laser sword that uses modified katana slash combos.

Beam Broadsword (Broadsword): A laser sword that uses the broadsword slash combos.

Electric MMA Gloves (Hacker): MMA Gloves that have an electric aura to them, and will electrocute and shock anything it touches regardless of attacking.

Freezing Boxing Gloves(Hail Mary): Boxing gloves that have a freezing aura around them. Will freeze enemies around you regardless of attacking.

Fishboard(Skateboard): A swordfish you skateboard on. Goes really fast, has infinite durability and you don't crash while on it. Only appears in the Royal Flush Plaza's safehouse hallway.

Chainsword (Ripper): Chainsaw with battleaxe swings. Has huge range and swing arc.

Shock Trap/Sonic Field (Amplifier):Electrical traps that shock all zombies that pass through and near it. Sticks on zombies and explodes after about a minute.
When equipped, you also emit a sonic field that can kill or stun zombies.

Minigun (LMG): Minigun. Pretty self explanatory. For autoaim to work at long distances just stand still.

Lasergun (Flashlight): Laser SMG. Cuts up enemies real good.

Headbutt (Train Key): Headbutting with the power of a train. This weapon isn't located in the bathroom, but rather by the traffic cone at the safehouse exit.

Flame Pistol (Blazing Aces): Pistol that fires bullets that spew flame cones on impact.

Kickbomb (Pearce): Heavy Explosive that propels wildly when hit, freezing things in it's trail before exploding.
Must be moved with some kind of motion to propel! (walking and rolling into it work!) Projectile launcher, so no infinite ammo here either.

Hummer Blaster (SUV): A gun that fires a flaming, sparkly hummer that explodes on contact.

Turbo Blitzkrieg (Blitzkrieg): A Blitzkrieg that drives like a bike and fires missiles. Made from the
combo of the Missile Launcher + Minigun, Auto Shotgun, or Sawblade Gun.

Spinning Parasol (Wheel of Destiny): A parasol which knocks enemies back incredibly far with 360 degree spins.
You can also do the spinning attack with infinite duration while using it.

Elemental Guitar (Electric Guitar): A power guitar that causes every type of element to occur.
Shocks, freezes, explodes heads, and lights zombies on fire all at once.

Missile Launcher (Rocket Launcher): Fires rapid missiles that don't harm humans.

Ramp E Launcher (Ramp E): Places a small ramp rotated 90-ish degrees in front of you if there is
enough space. Otherwise it spawns kinda wonky. Be careful, as these are destroyable with enough damage!

Ramp I Launcher (Ramp I): Places a large ramp rotated 90-ish degrees in front of you if there is enough
space. Otherwise it spawns kinda wonky. Be careful, as these are destroyable with enough damage!

Block Launcher (Pallet): Places a 2m by 2m block directly on you. Also destroyable.


Flamethrower: Basically just an improved flamethrower that uses the leafblower model.

Melee Flamethrower (Tiki Torch): A leafblower that uses the pole weapon attacks. When it hits, it activates
the flamethrower portion.

Flame Bow (Bow and Arrow): Bow and Arrow that fires fire walls that explode after about a minute.

Sword and Shield (Training Sword): Just a sword and shield that actually slices with the sword, and pushes enemies away with the shield rather than being made out of wood and just bonking dudes.


Automatic Shotgun 2 (Shotgun): Automatic shotgun that uses the soldier pack style of shooting. Fires slowly when aimed,
but very quickly when being sprayed. Gibs a lot.

Freezing Football Charge (Freezer Bomb) Football charge that freezes enemies you run by. Placed next to the
other charge item.

Kicking Knife (Bowie Knife): Knife that uses the ninja pack's kick. Explodes in fire when the knife part of the kick hits.
Charge attack is the machete attack from the psychopath pack.

Cluster Grenade Launcher (Grenade): Grenade launcher that fires 5 or so grenades at once. The explosions don't detonate each other, so can lead to interesting uses with roofs.


Uber Outfit Effects:
Wearing Chuck's default Riding Boots gives these bonuses when worn:
50% move speed increase
50% higher chance to explode limbs with bullets
50% less damage taken
10x ammo for standard guns
3x bullet damage for standard guns
no accuracy decrease for standard guns
2x throw damage
2x throw speed
2x throw force
+2 more bars from alcohol
+1 more bar from food
doesn't barf all over the place when drinking
items that bounce off zombies have a way higher limit (baseballs, golfballs, etc)
gambling payouts increased by 300x

Safehouse Modification

The safehouse is a modified version of Jusupov's safehouse, which means it has a blender and all combo drinks in it.
It also has exits to the underground lab, palisade mall, and the south mall.
(thanks to jusupov)

Also contains all the new weapons in the bathroom.

Misc
2-3x the number of zombies overall
All items are pocketable

Please leave feedback and report bugs and crashes if possible.

Video Showcase[/u]


A quick overview of some of the new weapons.



This video showcases how it doesn't interfere with any of the stock items at all.

Rough versions of the minigun and shock trap.

A rough version of the melee.

Demonstration of the laser gun.

The headbutt weapon in action.

The Hummer Blaster and Flame Pistol

Shows how to use/not use the kickbomb.

The turbo blitzkrieg doing a lap around the underground railroad.

The missile launcher in it's native environment.

Ramp launcher I being used against a sniper.

The spinning parasol in action.

The elemental guitar being used next to some ramps.

The flamethrower with a brief showing of the minigun's changed effects.

The upgraded version of the Freezing Glove and the fixed Shock Trap.

The melee flamethrower, fire arrows, and sword and shield being used.

The DLC pack weapons.

Later posts will most likely have more videos showing rough versions of what's either in or coming to the mod.

[tab]

new video showing the beam sword weapons:




edit: quote is not edit agg

edit 2:

feel free to give feedback and please post crashes and bugs you encounter

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quick update that will be very helpful for those not wanting to fiddle with the mod tools and stuff

now you just extract the rar into the data folder and it will work 100% fine with a completely vanilla streamedassets.

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two things that will be in the next update whenever that is


minigun:



super powered unarmed skills

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Updated the mod with 4 new weapons, organized the safehouse (now all the new items are in the bathroom), and added in the super melee feature.

Here's a preview of an incredibly rough version of the shock trap (it's much more effective now)

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sgraph.txt in the datafile, but it's a pretty big hassle

here's a post so here's something that will be in the next update (eta: some time eventually)



edit: quick update on something less interesting:

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this may or may not be in the next update, but it's really fun to use so i made a video of it anyways



edit: i decided ill put it in since i figured out how to fit it into the safehouse

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2 more weapons that will be in the next update:



i also posted the skeleton i used in the other thread

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Updated the mod to version 3.3.

Here's a longer than usual video showing the last new weapon of the update.



edit: made a quick update that fixed some bugs and made the beam weapons have a more varied color range

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you know the kickbombs reminded me of something, soooo




yeeeeeep.

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i am running out of ideas for interesting things

i cannot think of weapons i want to make that i can

(the ones i have been trying to have not been going too well)

edit: also the primary files in my mod are the items.txt, safehouse.txt and sgraph.txt

at the top of the items.txt are my items, you can just copy/paste them into someone else's items.txt while still having my dynamicprops folder and it will work perfectly together

all of my items are at the top of the safehouse.txt too, and both files have commentary marking where they start or end, marked by //tabmod or something like that

sgraph.txt is where the melee changes are, so leave that alone if you don't want that feature


i made it pretty convenient to export my items, so it shouldn't be too rough

also i have no idea how to modify the sound, or else i would have awhile back


in the meantime i am adding this back in next update

[adejam]

Oct 12, 2010 7:06:38 GMT -5 tab said:

this may or may not be in the next update, but it's really fun to use so i made a video of it anyways

edit: i decided ill put it in since i figured out how to fit it into the safehouse

Niiice! I love how useful it looks like getting through Zombehs will be
Just a quick question, how did you get Stacey, looking that glitch free, and can you do it with Rebecca Thanks, Adejam

[ubtri©]

I don't know how much of tab's items.txt is edited, but most of my mod is located throughout that file, + palisades.txt, rooftop_safehouse.txt & royal_flush.txt

Tab's mod looks like it is mostly just the safehouse.txt that is edited, plus the additional new weapon files in that steam directory. So... If you use gibbed's extraction tools you can open Tab's datafile up, copy his safehouse to my extracted datafile folder & replace the safehouse.txt in there with no change to my mod whatsoever.

I am not sure if his new weapons are listed in the items.txt, but if they are then you will have to find them and copy them into my items.txt.

[ripc]

Oct 15, 2010 19:48:03 GMT -5 tab said:

i am running out of ideas for interesting things

i cannot think of weapons i want to make that i can

(the ones i have been trying to have not been going too well)

I've currently stopped my Modding of DR2 due to RL committments (job, etc.) but I've had the idea for a Gun that has been bothering me for quite a while and I've tested certain parts of it myself to no prevail. Maybe you could complete this instead(?)

Basic Goal:
A Weapon/tool that can Spawn Static Collision Props (Pref Pallet or other Climbable flat Prop) at pointed position 0.6 (or further dependant on prop size) Units away from the Player. This would allow for players to create platforms, boxes, forts and anything that they can think of from this. My ultimate goal was to make this weapon/tool somewhat like a no-clip vehicle that would allow the same properties as the debug camera to fly around but to spawn these props at the same time if possible although I'm not fussed about no-clipping and I think this would decrease the fun with this weapon/tool.

Features:
- Added Weapon (No Replacements, easily accomplished)
- Left Click Spawns the Prop Flat
- Hold Left Click Spawns the Prop Rotated 90degrees
- Prop is Static and cannot be moved, although can be broken (Destructible is not a necessity.)

My Progress:
So far I've been able to spawn static props although not where I want them... They spawn in the "Direction" I want them although through walls, floors, etc. and quite a fair way away and then from there they just tend to stack one on top of another oddly enough.

Maybe you can take this idea and make something much better?

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This idea was partially part of a Large Scale Modification I've been planning for quite some time although being restricted by time I haven't had a chance to do so. The idea of the Modification I guess was similarly close to garry's mod although I want the weapons to create the Gamemodes.

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Another failed Idea for a weapon I had was basically a Weapon that would use the "Lightsaber" effect between two points. First of all by shooting one point with Left Click and then Holding Left click shooting the other point would create this effect between the two points - then any zombies coming inbetween these two points would either be shocked or damaged due to the "Lightsaber" effect or any other effect added.

[tab]

edit: nevermind figured it out

also here is another video with nothing new in it

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i liked your idea ripc


but i'm not too good with getting the specifics

[ubtri©]

now people can build an epic stunt park in any map! good work & thanks ripc for the idea

Can you make another version of the weapon but to spit out small ramps for indoor use? I'd like to launch off the 2nd floor in malls.

[indyclone77]

I was think maybe bow and arrows but on fire and a lightning and flamethrower Blitzkrieg

[tab]

Oct 19, 2010 14:50:17 GMT -5 stvndysn said:

did you know that when you start the game from scratch with this pack, man your screwed straight at the beginning theres like 4x more zombies on the way to get katey from the green room

yeah the multiplied zombies can get either really dangerous or dangerously buggy at times.

the intro is really fun at level 50 with the enhanced melee though, because it's the perfect amount of zombies so where nothing bugs out so you can go bananas with super stomps kicks and sweeps

but, i think at the end of day 3 royal flush plaza is so flooded that the LOD system on zombies make it so only zombies within melee distance are affected by anything

ramp launchers

also new update, i couldn't figure out how to fix up the ramp launchers so they're kinda wonky

two more weapons in the update:

spinning parasol


elemental guitar

[ral1239]

I got an idea

Have you ever played Katamari Forever?

I notice in DR2 when your inside that hamster ball thingy the zombies stick to the ball for about a second then they get thrown as you run over them. Is it possible to have zombies and objects attach to the ball as you run over them?

Heres a video of Katamari just for reference of what im talking about

[shady111]

i don't know why when i use this mod, everything work fine but there is only one thing that i don't know why is the amount of zombies is the same like before, nothing change. Could you please tell me why? Use your mod without more zombies then my satsfaction is lessen

[stvndysn]

just thought i'd mention that if you over use the saw blade gun in an area at one time it stops working, is this known or is it a glitch. otherwise man great weapons dude.

[shady111]

You mean i have to throw away saw blade gun to remain the large amount of zombie?

[stvndysn]

no dude you go onto another area and the firepower is there so if you are say near any doors just go through kill a few zombies that are near then go back out and carry on

[JonnyReLLo]

Great mod!
I'm loving these weapons and the amount of zombies put in here.

One question though, where are these safehouse shortcuts?

EDIT: Nevermind, I found em once I noticed the other vent openings, great mod.

You should make some weapons that use the Pole Weapon's attacks, that's my favorite weapon in the game, I love to use the light attack and then the strong attack in the middle of a zombie horde.

[tab]

quick update that fixes not being able to pocket a few items including freedom bear

not really sure how that happened

also yeah, the sawblade gun seems to hit the prop launch limit pretty fast. at least i think it's a prop launch limit, since that happening seems to only occur when you launch like a loooot of props and it's not determined by the ammo or throwables count

regarding the zombie thing, I'm not entirely sure what is going on with that

it seems to fluctuate based on the timer, and all the zombies in front of the stage have definitely disappeared (which makes the band rescue weird) the method i used seems to have worked overall, by editing the zombiefactory settings but it's definitely weird


i might not update for a lil bit because new vegas

[anno1404]

tab, can you tell me and post which sections of datafile.big you edited to increase the number of zombies? We are trying to remove all of the zombies.

lessen zombies in dead rising 2

Thank you so much in advance.

[ubtri©]

I'll give you guys a hint: Read the 3rd page of this thread, tab tells you the important files in the datafile for his weapons... .. . and there are tutorials for how to open your datafile. It's pretty easy stuff, like winzip, and there are plenty of tutorial threads about it.

[anno1404]

Oct 26, 2010 19:28:57 GMT -5 ubtri© said:

I'll give you guys a hint: Read the 3rd page of this thread, tab tells you the important files in the datafile for his weapons... .. . and there are tutorials for how to open your datafile. It's pretty easy stuff, like winzip, and there are plenty of tutorial threads about it. Use your eyes & brain!

That is not fair. Some of us are not programmers and there are literally HUNDREDS of files which can be modified, and dozens of posts in this thread. It isn't fair to expect readers to devote as much time to this forum as we have. In addition, the way forums are set up, it is generally difficult to find information. That is why I started to post tutorials etc. on dead-rising.wikia.com unfortunately that hasn't taken off.

Update

here is the information referred to (thank you!), without the tone.

Here is the thread

edit: also the primary files in my mod are the items.txt, safehouse.txt and sgraph.txt

at the top of the items.txt are my items, you can just copy/paste them into someone else's items.txt while still having my dynamicprops folder and it will work perfectly together

all of my items are at the top of the safehouse.txt too, and both files have commentary marking where they start or end, marked by //tabmod or something like that

sgraph.txt is where the melee changes are, so leave that alone if you don't want that feature

Get rid of all zombies on the strip

I would just like to be pointed to the files where Tab increased the zombies so I can decrease them to 0. (I want to make sophisticated panoramas from far above--the length of the entire strip).

Here is a hint for me:

regarding the zombie thing, i'm not entirely sure what is going on with that

it seems to fluctuate based on the timer, and all the zombies in front of the stage have definitely dissapeared (which makes the band rescue weird) the method i used seems to have worked overall, by editing the zombiefactory settings but it's definitely weird

Tab or ubtri we depend on you so much! I am not a programmer but because people are patient with me, I have managed to create the best non-video texmod tutorial and I may have been the only person who had two tutorials featured in the neoseeker article.

I am willing to continue to contribute a lot to this forum, but I continue to need help along the way from you guys! Thank you.

Update:

I found this post about removing zombies.

[anno1404]

Hey tab, I am just really happy that you helped point me in the right direction.

Tab regarding you losing interest, have you guys noticed that the amount of mods posted here has really dropped? Seems like others are losing interest too.

Oct 27, 2010 6:58:20 GMT -5 @izanagi said:

Dude, anno1404, quit your whining. It's not like he told you to read a book. Anyway, was that you that posted that Texmod tutorial? It looks a lot like my tutorial, except it has screencaps, and the wording is slightly different, and a bit more...engrishy.

We are all here to work together.

Yes, I adapted this tutorial from three of the tutorials here, maybe one of them was yours. If you want me to put a big adopted from izanagi's text only tutorial I would be happy to. I appreciate your work and assistance here Izanagi. Thank you.

I really love this forum and have been really excited by all of the possibilities it has opened up for the wikia I work on. The idea of a birds eye panorama is so exciting to me.

[tab]

from what i can tell money value is stored in the cMoneyItem values in the items.txt, items like GamblingDollars and OneThousandDollars


also,in theory a boring weapon that is still tremendously satisfying in use

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i decided i wanna make the less useful weapons more powerful, and a lil more interesting


i also realized the freaking lightning trap explosion part didn't work so i fixed that too. and hopefully made it a lil more effective so you don't have to lay like 5 or 6 of 'em

[tab]

that was a bug in version 3.4's quickfix, i fixed it in 3.4a and this one

also, update

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TabMod MK. 3.5a (minigun fix, saferoom dolphin)

i am too excited about fixing the minigun so yeah, quickfix update

here is a picture that has nothing to do with it

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Regarding installation:

it's right there in the opening post

just put the contents in your dead rising 2/data folder

nothing fancy required

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(saferoom survivors)

updated. kind of

you have to start the game over to get this to work;

new game or new game+, either way you must start from the beginning

or debug jump if you want, it has to load up a new thing rather than loading from an in-game save

almost forgot, i fixed the custom weapons so that they're usable by survivors again

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Re: TabMod MK. 3.5b (safehouse survivors quickfix)

i just realized the lightning gun was hurting survivors if they used it, and that i left the twins at 0 awareness range which is why they were nigh useless

fixed

www.mediafire.com/?an61rysw8i5viej

no need to restart your game if your save is a 3.5b save.

[tab]

Nov 2, 2010 21:59:15 GMT -5 @adeno said:

Nice updates to my favorite mod:)

I have a request though, can we have two versions of your latest mod? One with super powered melee attacks, and another one without super melee. Thanks in advance

just replace the sgraph.txt with one from an original datafile.

also here's something that will be an optional update, since it requires a new game (starting from a new game+ works too)

[stvndysn]

I installed the latest update and no posse, maybe you havent included it yet..i dont know

oh btw any chance you could put the weapons somewhere else instead of the toilet cos its looking mighty cramped in there now

[truentity]

can you make the recruitable survivors in the safehouse so that they take damage ( for realism purposes) but they dont defect?

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yeah, and also since you already have a recruitable survivors mod, why not add alot of regular survivors in the safehouse, that way we could just pick who we want to add in the party

Great mod btw.

[joshua]

if the recruitable survivors would take damage, they will die in no time through friendly fire. So its good as it is.

Tab, absolutely great mod, thx a lot!

[truentity]

im looking for a more realistic approach, atleast have an option for where they take damage.... its no fun to have an invincible team of survivors, wheres the suspense of survival in that

anyway thats just a suggestion to improve the mod..... i hope you add more survivors too

[joshua]

Nov 9, 2010 6:05:24 GMT -5 truentity said:

im looking for a more realistic approach, atleast have an option for where they take damage.... its no fun to have an invincible team of survivors, wheres the suspense of survival in that

I understand your point, but this mod has a bunch of crazy cool weapons which would kill your posse in no time and then they are gone forever.

[truentity]

okay , but its just a suggestion, im only suggesting to atleast have an option for it...
its cool to have an option too for preference right? that way everyones happy

[Deleted]

You guys sure like arguing as if you're in control of what tab does...my two cents, btw: Realism is nice, but Dead Rising 2 is about as realistic as a wet dream.